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Effects of Incentive Magnitude upon Discriminative Learning and Choice Preference in Young Children
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Masters, John C.; Mokros, Janice R. – Child Development, 1973
It was concluded from the date that satiation plays a determining role in the continued utilization of an acquired response while distraction is a primary determinant of acquisition rate. (Authors)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Motivation, Preschool Children, Reinforcement
Effects of Achievement Standards, Tangible Rewards, and Self-dispensed Achievement Evaluations on Children's Task Mastery
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Masters, John C.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Mastery Learning, Preschool Education, Rewards
Dimensional Preference, Pretraining, and Attention in Children's Concept Identification
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Rollins, Howard; Castle, Kathryn – Child Development, 1973
These results provide a more precise attentional interpretation of both preference and pretraining effects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Stimulus Novelty as a Variable in Children's Win-Stay, Lose-Shift Discrimination Learning Set
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Berman, Phyllis W. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Motivation
Intertask Correspondence in the Five to Seven Shift: Transposition, Cue Interference, and Spatial Memory
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Corsini, David A.; Berg, Allan J. – Child Development, 1973
Examines the interrelationships of task performances and developmental changes of 4-, 6-, and 8-year-olds. Significant developmental changes were observed on transposition, cue interference, and spatial memory. The pattern of intercorrelations between tasks suggested a high degree of correspondence across tasks. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Measurement
Position Strategies in an Object Discrimination Task
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Carmean, Stephen L.; Carmean, C. Jean – Child Development, 1971
Results of 5 experiments supported the hypothesis that many nonlearners in a multipair visual discrimination learning task were following position rather than object strategies and that it was possible to predict individual subjects' strategies from previous performances. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing
Stimulus Orientation and the Apparent Developmental Lag Between Perception and Performance
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Strayer, Janet; Ames, Elinor W. – Child Development, 1972
Aim of the present study was to clarify the processes involved in the apparent lag in copying a diamond by reducing the lag experimentally with perceptual training of discrimination of orientation. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Discrimination Learning, Orientation
The Effects of Differential Reinforcement on the Discrimination Learning of Normal and Low-Achieving Middle-Class Boys
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Blair, John Raymond – Child Development, 1972
Results indicated that the normal achievers learned more effectively under person and performance reinforcement than under tangible reinforcement, whereas the reverse was true for low achievers. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Grade 3
Methodological Improvements in the Assessment of Phonological Discrimination in Children
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Kamil, Michael L.; Rudegeair, Robert E. – Child Development, 1972
Two major implications of this study are that repeated testing is a necessity for young children, and that repeated contrasts may provide a more accurate assessment of phonological discrimination ability in children. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Discrimination, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning
Effects of Type and Source of Labels on Children's Perceptual Judgments and Discrimination Learning
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Etaugh, Claire F.; Averill, Bonnie E. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Discrimination Learning, Labeling (of Persons), Learning Processes
Meaning and Attention as Determinants of Social Reinforcer Effectiveness
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Cairns, Robert B. – Child Development, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Extinction (Psychology), Negative Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement
Effect of Spatial Separation of Stimuli on Children's Discrimination Learning
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Etaugh, Claire F.; Pope, Barbara K. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
An Experimental and Ethological Analysis of Social Reinforcement with Retarded Children
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Paris, Scott G.; Cairns, Robert B. – Child Development, 1972
Research combined an experimental analysis of the cue properties of evaluative comments with a naturalistic account of the functions that such events serve in everyday interchanges. (Authors)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children, Interaction Process Analysis, Mental Retardation
Reversal Shifting: Its Stability and Relation to Intelligence at Two Developmental Levels
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Brier, Norman; Jacobs, Paul I. – Child Development, 1972
A single administration of the reversal learning paradigm is not a sufficient basis for determining either a given subject's choice of option or his behavior on its constituent learning measures. This conclusion raises many questions about past research relating to mediation theory, since this paradigm has been the basic one employed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Grade 2